President Trump huddles with unorthodox lineup of aides during Syria air strike briefing at Mar-a-Lago

It was a bit of an odd situation in the "Winter White House's" situation room.

Trump's breifing on U.S. missile strikes in Syria at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. (WHITE HOUSE / HANDOUT/EPA)

Shortly after enjoying a steak dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump and his top aides sat in chairs intended for wedding receptions in a make-shift war room at Mar-a-Lago— the unconventional seats filled with an equally unconventional lineup that, for some reason, included his chief economic adviser and treasury secretary.

Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Friday offered an inside look at the tense moments Trump and his team spent awaiting the outcome of a U.S. military strike on the other side of the world. He tweeted out a picture of the sit-down concerning Trump's decision to launch a series of Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airfield, believed to be the source of a deadly chemical attack that left dozens of civilians in the rebel-held province of Idlib dead.

Spicer noted the briefing included Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford who joined "via secure VTC" or video teleconference from Washington D.C. He said the photo was taken around 9:15 p.m. on Thursday, just before Trump announced the airstrike.

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The image taken at the Palm Beach resort has already drawn comparisons to the iconic situation room photo of former President Obama, Vice President Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton being briefed on the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.

In the 2011 photo, Obama is surrounded entirely by national security staff or chiefs of staff. (Pete Souza/AP)

In the 2011 photo, Obama is surrounded entirely by national security staff or chiefs of staff. Trump's briefing, on the other hand, sees the inclusion of other officials with positions that are not directly related to national security, including his son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner, Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Stephen Bannon, who was recently removed from his post on the National Security Council.

Others seated at Trump's table included Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, according to Time Magazine White House correspondent Zeke Miller, whobannotated the image.

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Spicer, senior adviser Stephen Miller, adviser Michael Anton, deputy national security adviser Dina Powell and director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn were also in the room when the photo was snapped.

Spicer said the photograph was edited to obscure the contents of sensitive documents.